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WiFi users blissfully ignorant about real security, research finds

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WiFi users blissfully ignorant about real security, research finds
New research conducted on behalf of the Wi-Fi Alliance shows that while wireless users are making strides on the security front, they're still leaving their Wi-Fi networks too open to intruders. Read More


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Making Database Security an IT Security Priority
Tanya Baccum, SANS Institute analyst, discusses the importance of having an appropriate IT security strategy that mitigates risk to databases by introducing key steps and controls to effective database security. Read More!

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Performance Metrics and the Cloud
Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More

Forget iPhone 4S: Nine High-End Apple Alternatives
The iPhone 4S -- not the rumored "iPhone 5" -- was revealed this week. Apple fanatics are still predictably going ga-ga over the new iPhone, but not everyone's been bitten by the Apple bug. Here are ten comparable, high-end devices we like just as much--or more--than the iPhone 4S. Read More

How Apple conquered enterprise mobility, without even trying
When Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPod 10 years ago this month, no one, including him, could predict that it would pave the way for Apple to dominate the emerging mobile enterprise. How it did so reveals Jobs true legacy: not Apple's products, but Apple itself. Read More

FCC tells retailers to stop selling mobile phone jammers
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has issued warnings to 20 online retailers selling illegal mobile phone jammers, GPS jammers, Wi-Fi jammers and other signal jamming devices, the agency said Wednesday. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud
Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now

Button-size wireless sensor can tell if you're nervous
Alps Electric has developed a button-size motion sensor that can detect when your pulse quickens from across a room or through a wall, then sends the readings wirelessly to a server. Read More

'Incremental' iPhone 4S still promises to be big seller
Apple's new iPhone 4S, despite failing to win over many pundits, bloggers and early adopters, nevertheless seems destined to be as successful as the old iPhone. Read More

Motorola faces new lawsuit
Patent licensing company Intellectual Ventures has set its sights on Motorola with a new lawsuit charging the handset maker with infringing six patents. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Commerce 2.0 Strategy with 'Smarter Commerce' Initiative
IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement Read More!

NYC goes wireless to cut costs, expand services
New York City is expanding the use of its citywide wireless network to more than a million devices as it tries to cut costs and expand the range of services available to residents, the city's CIO said on Wednesday. Read More

Google CIO: Don't Fight Consumerization of IT
In a Bloomberg Businessweek article, Google CIO Ben Fried reflects on the benefits of letting employees have their way with technology. Forrester Research agrees that IT managers should relinquish control, but not before methodically analyzing workers' wants and needs. Read More

Game changer: The iPhone then and now
From the original iPhone to the iPhone 4S, here's how Apple upped the ante on each iPhone model Read More



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